Gray Matter (short story)

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Gray Matter (short story)

Quality:

Gray Matter - short story by Stephen King. This book is the 9525th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books. Article “Gray Matter (short story)” in English Wikipedia has 24 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 7 references and 8 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:
Global Wikipedia:
The 9525th most popular in books.

Since the creation of article “Gray Matter (short story)”, its content was written by 59 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 72 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Gray Matter is on the 9525th place in global ranking of books on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 47 times in English Wikipedia and cited 480 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #55718 in September 2019
  • Global: #162514 in July 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #96709 in September 2019
  • Global: #176053 in September 2019

There are 5 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Gray Matter (short story)
24.0308
2Chinese (zh)
灰色菌
9.1891
3French (fr)
Matière grise (nouvelle)
8.5617
4Russian (ru)
Серая дрянь
7.0678
5Spanish (es)
Materia gris (relato corto)
3.5732
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Gray Matter (short story)" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Gray Matter (short story)
486 337
2Russian (ru)
Серая дрянь
10 930
3French (fr)
Matière grise (nouvelle)
10 481
4Spanish (es)
Materia gris (relato corto)
9 192
5Chinese (zh)
灰色菌
4 414
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Gray Matter (short story)" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Gray Matter (short story)
2 554
2Russian (ru)
Серая дрянь
221
3French (fr)
Matière grise (nouvelle)
62
4Spanish (es)
Materia gris (relato corto)
55
5Chinese (zh)
灰色菌
30
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Gray Matter (short story)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Gray Matter (short story)
59
2French (fr)
Matière grise (nouvelle)
4
3Chinese (zh)
灰色菌
4
4Spanish (es)
Materia gris (relato corto)
3
5Russian (ru)
Серая дрянь
2
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Gray Matter (short story)" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Gray Matter (short story)
0
2Spanish (es)
Materia gris (relato corto)
0
3French (fr)
Matière grise (nouvelle)
0
4Russian (ru)
Серая дрянь
0
5Chinese (zh)
灰色菌
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Gray Matter (short story)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1French (fr)
Matière grise (nouvelle)
244
2Russian (ru)
Серая дрянь
162
3English (en)
Gray Matter (short story)
47
4Chinese (zh)
灰色菌
24
5Spanish (es)
Materia gris (relato corto)
3
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
enEnglish
Gray Matter (short story)
esSpanish
Materia gris (relato corto)
frFrench
Matière grise (nouvelle)
ruRussian
Серая дрянь
zhChinese
灰色菌

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#96709
09.2019
Global:
#176053
09.2019

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#55718
09.2019
Global:
#162514
07.2005

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Gray Matter from Wikipedia articles about Night Shift, List of Creepshow (TV series) episodes, Stephen King short fiction bibliography, Creepshow and Grey Matter. Whereas reading the article about Gray Matter people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Dreamcatcher, Creepshow, Weeds, List of Creepshow (TV series) episodes and Night Shift.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

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